The function which calls s_op->alloc_inode() is not inode_alloc(), but
instead alloc_inode() which lives in fs/inode.c .
The typo was there from the beginning from
5ea626aa (VFS: update
documentation, 2005) - there was no standalone inode_alloc() for the
whole kernel history.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
only called from a process context (i.e. not from an interrupt handler
or bottom half).
- alloc_inode: this method is called by inode_alloc() to allocate memory
+ alloc_inode: this method is called by alloc_inode() to allocate memory
for struct inode and initialize it. If this function is not
defined, a simple 'struct inode' is allocated. Normally
alloc_inode will be used to allocate a larger structure which